Re: upgraded to 3.0.3, with hvm support

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 04:52:14PM -0800, Michael Richardson wrote:
> Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> >Hi,
> >I've just updated the xenkernel and xentools to 3.0.3. To run this you'll
> >need a very recent current. I have patches for the netbsd-3 branch 
> >(to run NetBSD 3.x guests on Xen 3.0.3) but they won't make it for 3.1 I 
> >fear.
> 
>   Wonderful!
>   As I understand it, a domU with the 3.0.3 ABI is not going to run on a 
>   dom0
> that uses the 3.0.2 ABI (such as an older FC5 install as the dom0).
> 
>   Is this correct?  Or is this ABI change just relating to the dom0 vs xend?

I think it's only dom0; a recent enough NetBSD domU can run on Xen 3.0.2 and
3.0.3 (and unlike what I said the changes are in NetBSD 3.1)

> >But of course, as the system uses emulation for the devices disk and 
> >network
> >access are much slower than with a Xen guest kernel, and cause significant
> >CPU load to dom0. But, you have a virtual VGA screen in an X-window :)
> 
>   I hope someone will post a screen shot. Alas, there isn't a lot in 
>   X-windows
> that says "I'm running on NetBSD" vs "I'm running on Linux"...

You can show the boot message :)

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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